Strategy for Understanding the Higgs Physics: The Cool Copper Collider
Abstract
A program to build a lepton-collider Higgs factory, to precisely measure the couplings of the Higgs boson to other particles, followed by a higher energy run to establish the Higgs self-coupling and expand the new physics reach, is widely recognized as a primary focus of modern particle physics. We propose a strategy that focuses on a new technology and preliminary estimates suggest that can lead to a compact, affordable machine. New technology investigations will provide much needed enthusiasm for our field, resulting in trained workforce. This cost-effective, compact design, with technologies useful for a broad range of other accelerator applications, could be realized as a project in the US. Its technology innovations, both in the accelerator and the detector, will offer unique and exciting opportunities to young scientists. Moreover, cost effective compact designs, broadly applicable to other fields of research, are more likely to obtain financial support from our funding agencies.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2203.07646,
title = {Strategy for Understanding the Higgs Physics: The Cool Copper Collider},
author = {Sridhara Dasu and Emilio A. Nanni and Michael E. Peskin and Caterina Vernieri and Tim Barklow and Rainer Bartoldus and Pushpalatha C. Bhat and Kevin Black and Jim Brau and Martin Breidenbach and Nathaniel Craig and Dmitri Denisov and Lindsey Gray and Philip C. Harris and Michael Kagan and Zhen Liu and Patrick Meade and Nathan Majernik and Sergei Nagaitsev and Isobel Ojalvo and Christoph Paus and Carl Schroeder and Ariel G. Schwartzman and Jan Strube and Su Dong and Sami Tantawi and LianTao Wang and Andy White and Graham W. Wilson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.07646},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
11 pages, 2 figures, contribution to Snowmass 2021